Sunday, September 15, 2013

We are extremely pleased to announce that Rizzoli published Central Park NYC: An Architectural View this past Tuesday, September 10, accompanied by a review in that same day's edition of the New York Times.

Their original watercolors and photographs and revealing text redefine
the coffee table book: More than just pretty pictures to be savored,
these images will enrich and deepen the reader’s experience of the park.

We are delighted that the Times recognized and lauded the underlying rigor of this book. We should also point out that beyond the park's structures and ornaments, our true focus is rather upon the park's design, divided into thirteen chapters that examine important features, such as the Mall, Bethesda Terrace and the Belvedere, and others devoted to design elements, such as the park's monuments, its bridges and arches, its water features, and its rustic structures.

To peek inside, you can visit this link to the book's Amazon page, where you can access an interactive pdf with a shocking number of the book's pages put online for your perusal. While pasting the link, we were delighted to see that Central Park NYChas already reached the #1 position in Amazon's landscape architecture category, and horrified that only 2 copies remain in stock. Our thanks to everyone who made this possible!

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Well, we're deep into the second week of la Rentrée
and this means that all of Paris's surfeit of boulangeries, agences
immobiliers and pressings—the stalwart pillars
of the French economy, such as it is—are now officially
reopened for business. And so, dear readers, are we.

We have been busy during our hiatus, mind you, and spent no appreciable time
in traffic jams on the autoroutes or lying on cobble-strewn beaches, hélas,
but this does however mean that we have much to report and
to catch up on.

We will be
posting a number of announcements about developments in our work these next
days, so please
check back with us often during September.

And the first order of business is to report to those
patiently awaiting the reopening of the Architectural Notecards online store
is, firstly, thank you for your patience!, and secondly, it is again online
(click on the treillage pavilion at right) with a spanking new format, and hopefully
without any fatal bugs. As those of you who deal with this sort of thing know,
patience when upgrading a website is not only a virtue but a sorely taxed
necessity.

First thing you will notice is that each card is presented
at full scale, so you will be able to see the majority of our watercolors
online in great detail, making the boutique a virtual gallery as well.

As an added bonus, the entire Architectural Watercolors
website has been upgraded as well, with a responsive format that will make it
fully accessible to those of you with tablets and smartphones. It is still a
bit rough about the edges, so please bear with us as we polish and expand
existing content in the coming weeks. The shop is fully integrated with the
main site and is also responsive for those of you wedded to those clever little
microwave emitters, which adds up to over half the page views in the US, so
none too soon!